A 15-year-old Westchester County lady was arrested Friday after she allegedly fatally stabbed a teenage lady and slashed one other throughout a parade celebrating the native highschool basketball group’s state championship, authorities mentioned.
The suspect is accused of fatally stabbing a 16-year-old on Gramatan Avenue in Mount Vernon at round 3:55 p.m., Westchester County District Lawyer Mimi Rocah mentioned in an announcement on Saturday. The suspect additionally stabbed a 15-year-old, who was slashed and had different accidents, Rocah mentioned.
Stunning video of the Friday afternoon incident confirmed a lady brandishing a knife and swinging it overtly in a mob of a number of younger girls combating close to the top of the parade.
Two teenage women have been stabbed within the melee. One suffered non-life threatening accidents and the opposite sufferer, a 16-year-old, was “gravely injured” and died as she was being rushed to Jacobi Medical Heart, in line with a assertion from the town.
Police mentioned Saturday they weren't releasing the names of the particular person arrested or the 2 youngsters who have been stabbed. Sources recognized the sufferer as Kayla Breonna Inexperienced and her devastated mother posted heartbreaking images of her little one at a latest Candy 16 occasion and within the hospital mattress.
“I'm not robust please pray for me whereas I attempt to pray for myself at this level I really feel like I wish to die and bury with my little one,” her mom posted. “she was solely 16 and so they took my child away from me I wish to die proper now,” she wrote. “I don’t even know tips on how to say RIP to my daughter this feels so unreal.”
The occasion started as a city-wide celebration for Mount Vernon Excessive College’s basketball group.
“I'm devastated and utterly outraged,” Mayor Shawyn Patterson Howard mentioned in an announcement.
The parade kicked off round 11 a.m. with members of the Mount Vernon Knights’ undefeated group snaking by way of the town in a police-escorted motorcade, passing by 15 different colleges metropolis colleges earlier than ending at Mount Vernon Metropolis Corridor for a ceremony the place the group was honored for its twelfth state title.
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